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Canonical is under attack
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Inverse Sapir-Whorf and programming languages
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Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force attacks
104 points, 93 comments on Hacker News
Ti-84 Evo
108 points, 134 comments on Hacker News
Pu.sh – a full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell (pu.dev)
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Show HN: Destiny – Claude Code's fortune Teller skill
33 points, 27 comments on Hacker News
Whimsical Animations Course Open House
36 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing The Skulls On Their Caps
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Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack"
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/ubuntu-infrastructure-has-been-down-for-more-than-a-day/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978892 Points: 63 # Comments: 13
Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming
24 points, 11 comments on Hacker News
City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo
215 points, 55 comments on Hacker News
First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line
28 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
XITLOG - patch-based merging is now enabled by default
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30,000 Facebook Accounts Hacked via Google AppSheet Phishing Campaign
A newly discovered Vietnamese-linked operation has been observed using a Google AppSheet as a "phishing relay" to distribute phishing emails with an aim to compromise Facebook accounts. The activity has been codenamed AccountDumpling by Guardio, with the scheme selling the stolen accounts back through an illicit storefront run by the threat actors. In all, roughly 30,000 Facebook accounts are
Using "underdrawings" for accurate text and numbers
76 points, 10 comments on Hacker News
New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming
139 points, 77 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: AI CAD Harness
44 points, 57 comments on Hacker News
Artemis II Fault Tolerance
41 points, 25 comments on Hacker News
AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/amazon-stuck-with-months-of-repairs-after-drone-strikes-on-data-centers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977498 Points: 109 # Comments: 41
Understand Anything
77 points, 23 comments on Hacker News
AI uses less water than the public thinks
280 points, 255 comments on Hacker News
combat LLM spam by building a web of trust
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The Gay Jailbreak Technique
Article URL: https://github.com/Exocija/ZetaLib/blob/main/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977134 Points: 264 # Comments: 86
Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
163 points, 187 comments on Hacker News
Apocalypse Early Warning System
77 points, 40 comments on Hacker News
A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life
37 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open
Article URL: https://keepthingsopen.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975785 Points: 32 # Comments: 1
Progressive Web Components
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How did Banksy erect a statue in Central London?
37 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/01/canonical_confirms_ubuntu_infrastructure_under/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975729 Points: 9 # Comments: 3
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